Ben Goldacre writes in the BMJ - How medicine is broken, and how we can fix it
The chief medical officer ’s review on statins and oseltamivir may look for answers in the wrong placesLast week there was extensive news coverage of a leaked letter written by the chief medical officer to the Academy of Medical Sciences. This letter focused especially on concerns around statins and oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and asked the academy for an “authoritative independent report looking at how society should judge the safety and efficacy of drugs.”1 The academy has since announced that it is convening a working group on the subject.With any such report there are two major risks. The first is a focus on “trust...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 23, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Ben Goldacre writes in the BMJ - How medicine is broken, and how we can fix it
The chief medical officer’s review on statins and oseltamivir may look for answers in the wrong placesLast week there was extensive news coverage of a leaked letter written by the chief medical officer to the Academy of Medical Sciences. This letter focused especially on concerns around statins and oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and asked the academy for an “authoritative independent report looking at how society should judge the safety and efficacy of drugs.”1 The academy has since announced that it is convening a working group on the subject.With any such report there are two major risks. The first is a focus on “trust”...
Source: PharmaGossip - June 22, 2015 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: insider Source Type: blogs
Palliative Care Is the Path Alongside the River of Curative Treatment
Dominic Wilkinson is a Consultant Neonatologist and Director of Medical Ethics at the University of Oxford. A recent short article on prognostication includes a great metaphor for palliative care.
"Conventional medical treatment i... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 11, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
Physiological Interventricular de-synchrony : Right ventricle contracts like an Intestine !
Right ventricle,being a venous chamber has distinct anatomical and physiological features to carry out this function.RV has a complex shape, its triangular in long axis and crescent like in short axis , thin (<5mm) more distendable .Contraction of RV begins slightly early but ends later than LV (30ms )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH5trHYjozI
RV receives blood from RA and ejects in to PA in a sequential manner .The inflow, body and outflow contract somewhat like intestinal peristalsis. This is facilitated by the incremental delay in the electrical depolarization of right ventricle.In physiological condi...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - May 5, 2015 Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Anatomy of heart Right ventricle best articles on right ventricle cardiac peristalsis physiological inter ventricualr desynchrony Right ventricle anatomy and physiology right ventricular sequential peristaltic contraction Source Type: blogs
Rationing – The Case of NICU and the Place of Cost-effectiveness Thresholds
Julian Savulescu will be delivering the next public lecture at the Australian Centre for Health Law Research: "Rationing - The Case of NICU and the Place of Cost-effectiveness Thresholds" on May 18.
When health professionals are considering whether or not to provide life-sustaining treatment to a critically ill newborn infant, they often consider the best interests of the child. Frequently, they will consult with the infant’s parents, and take into account parents’ interests and their views about treatment for the child. However, there is one important ethical factor that health professionals do not neces...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 30, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
You Ought to Have a Look: “Sustainability” Not Sustainable
You Ought to Have a Look is a feature from the Center for the Study of Science posted by Patrick J. Michaels and Paul C. (“Chip”) Knappenberger. While this section will feature all of the areas of interest that we are emphasizing, the prominence of the climate issue is driving a tremendous amount of web traffic. Here we post a few of the best in recent days, along with our color commentary.
This week, as Pope Francis announced the Vatican will host a climate change summit later this month focusing on “sustainable development,” the conventional wisdom of “sustainability” came under fire.
For example, New York...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 17, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Paul C. "Chip" Knappenberger, Patrick J. Michaels Source Type: blogs
Rebuttal of Sen. Sessions’ Anti-Legal-Immigration Op-ed
Alex Nowrasteh
Senator Jeff Sessions’ (R-AL) Washington Post op-ed calls “for an honest discussion on immigration.” He then lays out his case against legal immigration.
Although I appreciate Sessions’ honesty in calling for large reductions in legal immigration–a level of candor too often shrouded by immigration-restrictionists’ political correctness (“I’m only against illegal immigration”)–his op-ed makes a poor case for more government regulation of international labor markets.
Below, I look at Senator Sessions’ arguments against legal immigration. His writings will be in block quotes and my res...
Source: Cato-at-liberty - April 10, 2015 Category: American Health Authors: Alex Nowrasteh Source Type: blogs
SENS Research Foundation Newsletter for April 2015
The SENS Research Foundation's April newsletter turned up in my inbox today, along with the news that registration is open for the Rejuvenation Biotechnology 2015 conference to be held later this year in San Francisco, California. This conference series aims to lay the groundwork for closer collaboration between academia and industry in the forthcoming development and commercialization of the first generation of effective treatments for aging. The first conference in the series was held last year and well-received by all accounts; there are a number of very interesting presentation videos to be found online.
Registration ...
Source: Fight Aging! - April 6, 2015 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Healthy Life Extension Community Source Type: blogs
New books for the Etics & Law UoS
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Source: DentistryLibrary@Sydney - March 23, 2015 Category: Dentistry Tags: New books Source Type: blogs
New books for the Etics & Law UoS
Dental ethics at chairside: professional principles and practical applications. / David T. Ozar. 2nd ed, Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002. An essential book for dentists, dental students, and all oral health care providers, this revised, updated, and expanded second edition includes vital, new material on confidentiality and patient records and on third-party payers and managed care. Principles of biomedical ethics / Tom L. Beauchamp. 7th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. This text provides a highly original, practical, and insightful guide to morality in the health professions. Its authors tho...
Source: DentistryLibrary@Sydney - March 23, 2015 Category: Dentistry Tags: New books Source Type: blogs
Patient-Oriented Real-Life Encounters
By: Ami Schattner, MD, visiting scholar, Ethox Center, Oxford University, Oxford, England, and professor of medicine, Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical School, Jerusalem, Israel
During medical school, we were taught to go after the patient’s history. And now we teach our students to do that.
By the patient’s history, we usually mean disease-centered data, such as the symptoms, their character and duration. Any past medical history, family history, occupational or social history, and habits that may be relevant to proper diagnosis are sought. However, I have long found that this type of information co...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - March 5, 2015 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Guest Perspective patient centered care teaching and learning moments well-being Source Type: blogs
2014, looking back with pride
At the end of 2013 I did a review of the year and now, in early 2015, I thought I'd repeat the exercise for 2014!First, the stats:We had over 3,600,000 page views.We are up to registered user number 140,000. However, the standard view is to discount the number by 10-20% for users who no longer use the account and/or spam accounts. So, we probably have 115-125,000 registered users. The average duration on the site continues to increase 5.08 minutes compared with 4.11 in 2013. This is mirrored in the number of pages per session, increasing from 3.26 to 3.89The bounce rate (people who just visit one page and then ...
Source: Liberating the literature - January 2, 2015 Category: Technology Consultants Source Type: blogs
Calcification of patent ductus arteriosus
Brief Review
Abstract: Calcified patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) produces an inverted Y shaped pattern of calcification on x-ray chest PA view.
Detection of calcification of the patent ductus arteriosus is important because of potential problems with surgical management. The simple surgery for closure of patent ductus arteriosus was triple ligation which was a closed heart procedure not requiring cardiopulmonary bypass. But a calcified ductus cannot be dealt with by this procedure. The general dictum is that a calcified ductus needs division and ligation with support of cardiopulmonary bypass. This is more likely to be ne...
Source: Cardiophile MD - December 27, 2014 Category: Cardiology Authors: Prof. Dr. Johnson Francis, MD, DM, FACC, FRCP Edin, FRCP London Tags: General Cardiology Calicified patent ductus arteriosus ductal calcification inverted Y shaped pattern of calcification PDA calcification Source Type: blogs
Palliative Care and Ethics – Difficult Decisions Near the Very End of Life
Earlier this year, Oxford University Press released Palliative Care and Ethics, edited by Timothy E. Quill
and Franklin G. Miller. The seven chapters in section IV focus on "Difficult Decisions Near the Very End of Life."
Section I: Intr... (Source: blog.bioethics.net)
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 29, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs
SENS Research Foundation 2014 Annual Report
Following on from the recent Rejuvenation Research 2014 conference, the SENS Research Foundation staff have released their latest annual report. The Foundation is perhaps the only organization to presently focus entirely on advancing repair-based approaches to the development of treatments for aging: take the known root causes, the fundamental forms of damage that distinguish old tissues from young tissues, and build ways to fix them. Unlike other possible approaches to treating aging, there is a clear path forward, as all the forms of damage are identified and one or more potential strategies for developing effective form...
Source: Fight Aging! - October 20, 2014 Category: Research Authors: Reason Tags: Medicine, Biotech, Research Source Type: blogs
